ZX Security

Alex Harris made this Official Information request to Department of Internal Affairs

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From: Alex Harris

Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

I would like to request the following information under the OIA:

* whether your agency has ever employed ZX Security Ltd, to provide training in social media or open source intelligence. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not interested in any work done by them on network security or penetration testing.
* If so, all information relating to, or provided by, ZX Security Ltd in relation to the above.

I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Queries about this request will be automatically forwarded to me by the fyi.org.nz website.

With regards to s12 of the OIA, I am an NZ citizen and in NZ.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Harris

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Kia ora Alex Harris,

 

Thank you for your OIA request to the Department of Internal Affairs
(included with this email).

 

The Department will provide its response to your request as soon as
practicable and within twenty working days.  The 20^th working day is 13
February 2019 (due to the closedown period under the Official Information
Act 1982 from 25 December 2018 to 13 January 2019_

 

Please note that in cases where the Department’s response provides
information that is identified to be of general public interest, the
response may also be published on the Department of Internal Affairs
website.  If the Department publishes its response to your OIA request,
all personal information, including your name and contact details, will be
removed.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

 

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |
 [1]www.dia.govt.nz
[2]DIA Logo - Black

 

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Kia ora Alex,

 

Please refer to the attached correspondence, in which the Department
extends the timeframe for response in your request.  

 

Ngâ mihi,

 

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |
 [1]www.dia.govt.nz
[2]DIA Logo - Black

 

From: OIA
Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2019 5:22 PM
To: [FOI #9357 email]
Subject: Your Official Information Act request OIA1819-0431

 

Kia ora Alex Harris,

 

Thank you for your OIA request to the Department of Internal Affairs
(included with this email).

 

The Department will provide its response to your request as soon as
practicable and within twenty working days.  The 20^th working day is 13
February 2019 (due to the closedown period under the Official Information
Act 1982 from 25 December 2018 to 13 January 2019_

 

Please note that in cases where the Department’s response provides
information that is identified to be of general public interest, the
response may also be published on the Department of Internal Affairs
website.  If the Department publishes its response to your OIA request,
all personal information, including your name and contact details, will be
removed.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

 

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |
 [3]www.dia.govt.nz
[4]DIA Logo - Black

 

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Kia ora Alex Harris,

 

Please refer to the attached correspondence, which provides the
Department’s decision in regard to your OIA request. 

 

Ngâ mihi,

 

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |
 [1]www.dia.govt.nz
[2]DIA Logo - Black

 

From: OIA
Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2019 5:22 PM
To: [FOI #9357 email]
Subject: Your Official Information Act request OIA1819-0431

 

Kia ora Alex Harris,

 

Thank you for your OIA request to the Department of Internal Affairs
(included with this email).

 

The Department will provide its response to your request as soon as
practicable and within twenty working days.  The 20^th working day is 13
February 2019 (due to the closedown period under the Official Information
Act 1982 from 25 December 2018 to 13 January 2019_

 

Please note that in cases where the Department’s response provides
information that is identified to be of general public interest, the
response may also be published on the Department of Internal Affairs
website.  If the Department publishes its response to your OIA request,
all personal information, including your name and contact details, will be
removed.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

 

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |
 [3]www.dia.govt.nz
[4]DIA Logo - Black

 

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Good afternoon Alex,

 

I apologise – it has taken slightly longer than anticipated to finalise
the documents we are releasing to you.  We are currently completing final
notifications of the release and will provide the information pack to you
on FYI.org.nz as soon as possible.

 

Kind regards,

 

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |
 [1]www.dia.govt.nz
[2]DIA Logo - Black

 

From: OIA
Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2019 4:22 PM
To: [FOI #9357 email]
Subject: Your Official Information Act request OIA1819-0431

 

Kia ora Alex Harris,

 

Please refer to the attached correspondence, which provides the
Department’s decision in regard to your OIA request. 

 

Ngâ mihi,

 

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |
 [3]www.dia.govt.nz
[4]DIA Logo - Black

 

From: OIA
Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2019 5:22 PM
To: [5][FOI #9357 email]
Subject: Your Official Information Act request OIA1819-0431

 

Kia ora Alex Harris,

 

Thank you for your OIA request to the Department of Internal Affairs
(included with this email).

 

The Department will provide its response to your request as soon as
practicable and within twenty working days.  The 20^th working day is 13
February 2019 (due to the closedown period under the Official Information
Act 1982 from 25 December 2018 to 13 January 2019_

 

Please note that in cases where the Department’s response provides
information that is identified to be of general public interest, the
response may also be published on the Department of Internal Affairs
website.  If the Department publishes its response to your OIA request,
all personal information, including your name and contact details, will be
removed.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

 

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |
 [6]www.dia.govt.nz
[7]DIA Logo - Black

 

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Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |  www.dia.govt.nz

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Part 3 of 3 attached.

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |  www.dia.govt.nz

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From: OIA
Department of Internal Affairs

Good afternoon Alex.

We have been having difficulty sending some of the information the Department is releasing to you, due to email bouncebacks with the Fyi.org.nz website. Please email the Department at [email address] and let us know a physical address or a dropbox location where we can send your information.

Kind regards

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |  www.dia.govt.nz

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From: Alex Harris

Dear OIA,

You could just post a dropbox URL here, so I and other FYI users can download it.

Yours sincerely,

Alex Harris

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Hi Alex,

I'm working on getting a dropbox location (or similar) from our information management team so that I can provide the information to the FYI team directly and they can then upload the three PDF files to the online response on our behalf. (Apologies - my team does not use dropbox currently.)

Many thanks for your patience. I know that it is irritating to have the information ready and waiting and not be able to access it.

Ngâ mihi,

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence 
The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |  www.dia.govt.nz

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Attachment OIA1819 0431 Document release 1 re redacted.pdf
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Good afternoon Alex,

I apologise sincerely again for the time that it has taken to be able to provide this information to you and thank you for your patience in this case.

Following my previous correspondence to you I was advised that it was not possible to use Dropbox for the purpose of making the attachment available, so I have since been working to be able to release the attachment via email.

I now include Attachment 1, together with the release letter that was intended to accompany the previous release. You will note that it is dated April 9. This was the date we first tried to release the information to you and encountered the problems in sending out the information.

Attachment 2 and 3 were successfully sent on April 16 2019 and are available earlier in this chain.

Ngâ mihi,

Michelle Reed | Lead Advisor – Official Correspondence The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua
45 Pipitea St | PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand |  www.dia.govt.nz

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